Nixtree Team comes across a wide range of issues to offer appropriate solutions to our clients. There was one interesting one. Our client faced the following error, while sending mail to another domain.
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
my_test_user@test_domain.com.au
The mail server could not deliver mail to my_test_user@test_domain.com.au.
The account or domain may not exist, they may be blacklisted, or missing the
proper dns entries.The first instinct is to think the domain name does not exist or does not have a MX record. Most of this is the case. While checking mx for the domain, I noticed that the MX is pointing to an IP.
#dig MX test_domain.com.au +short 192.168.0.1